Edward Caylor:  

Life After 7th grade at Connally, I went to GMA, which became Woodward Academy the following year. I graduated in 1970, then went to USNA, finishing in 1974. I flew patrol planes for the Navy. In 1978, an engine fire forced us to ditch our Navy P-3 aircraft between Soviet Kamchatka and the Aleutian Island chain. Only ten of the fifteen crew members survived. We were rescued by Russians, and taken to Breshnev's Siberia for a week. The accident was written up in the Sep. 1979 Reader's Digest. A book about the accident, titled "Adak", was published in April, 2003. I left the Navy in July 1980, and was hired by Delta in August. I moved to New Hampshire in September of that year. I married Janet Monroe, from Boston, in 1983. Our only child was born in 1986. Rachel is now at work in England. I left Delta airlines in December of 2004, 8 months before the bankruptcy. At the time, I was a captain on the 767ER, usually flying from JFK to Paris or Istanbul. For a while, I worked as a cartographer, specialising in aeronautical charting. I then ...Expand for more